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Source Description
This is a relatively early copy of the Gospels in the original Greek, remarkable on account of its calligraphic handwriting, illustrations, and prefatory material, the latter including Gospel prefaces by the sixth-century Cosmas Indicopleustes. It contains four full-page miniatures. The volume is now incomplete and misbound. Four miniatures in the collection of the late Dr. Seigfried Amberg-Herzog, Switzerland, were taken from this manuscript.
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Document identity
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26279
label
Gospel Book
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object
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1
Source metadata
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26279
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object
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normalized
title
Gospel Book
description
This is a relatively early copy of the Gospels in the original Greek, remarkable on account of its calligraphic handwriting, illustrations, and prefatory material, the latter including Gospel prefaces by the sixth-century Cosmas Indicopleustes. It contains four full-page miniatures. The volume is now incomplete and misbound. Four miniatures in the collection of the late Dr. Seigfried Amberg-Herzog, Switzerland, were taken from this manuscript.
provenance
Greek village of Aidonochori, until December 1907; Dr. Robert Forrer (d. 1947), Strasbourg [mode of acquisition unknown]; [Seen by H.R. WIlloughby ""in a Paris bookstore,"" 1928]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1928 [mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
date
first half 10th century
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CC0
language
en
genreSpecific
illuminated manuscripts
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1
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1
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import
dimensions
units
cm
width
17
height
12
depth
6.3
dimensionsRaw
Folio H: 6 11/16 x 4 3/4 x 2 1/2 in. (17 x 12 x 6.3 cm)
Source extras
style
Byzantine
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ink and pigments on good quality, smooth parchment between fawn velvet over wooden boards, rebacked with leather; modern parchment flyleaves and pastedowns
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31597
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721
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Single page context
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1
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0
type
photo
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1a7ae197be18c5ed